How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Okay, it was just a weekend but we seemed to cram an awful lot of fun stuff into those two little days. Saturday, we went to Raging Waters for the first time ever and I have to ask myself, self, why did you wait so damn long? Not only is it packed with fun water slides, there are also a zillion little pools with a variety of water accessories to hang out in. And I can't neglect to mention the fatass wavepool, where we sat for far too long in the shallow end, letting the ends of the waves wash over us.

Yep, I'm a bit sunburned but totally happy we went. While we were gone, a team of elves entered our home and installed our brand new fart fan! Here's proof.

We had time to do a drive-by visit to Heather and Gerald's BBQ just in time for fondue! Good times, good times, then off to another totally fun A-Team 2 game. We lost 3-2 on a 5 on 3 penalty kill in the last minute of the game. Somewhere along the way, Jena and I started inserting the 'annnttth' sound of the buzzer in our conversations, so on Sunday, when I was coaching them (wearing shorts because I brought enough hockey gear and clean understuff for my games, but not a sweatshirt to coach in. Brrr!) I made this movie: For Jena's enjoyment!

Sunday: hockey mania. Le Snack enjoyed another non-loss (a sort of loud 2-2 tie), then I coached Andrea's green team to victory (okay, maybe they totally did it themselves and I just stood on the bench making jokes and a list of things that ryhme with ice:

• Nice
• Spice
• Rice
• Slice
• MICE

Went on to my first A-Team game in a while. I had really missed them and the fact that we won, 6-1 made it even better. I've turned over the reins to Bob, who said that if we won, he was captain, if we lost, I was. Last night, Bob was. And he scored 2 terrific goals. A totally amazing night.

Came home, totally tired but wired, in time for Thomas to tell us his buddy is leaving for Japan in a week and the only time they could hang out was that instant. Which was somewhere around midnight. We told him to drive safely and we'd see him tomorrow, which is now today. He's been doing a few crazy teenager things lately and since I'm not his mom and since I worried that he wasn't doing enough crazy teenager things, I'm glad he's out there doing them. We always remind him to drive safely and he's been terrific about calling when he's not coming home.

One last bit of news: we have named the Tiki. His name is Tyrone Tiki.